William Susman (1978), composer of concert and film music Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist for the bands The Damned Things and Fall Out Boy Peter Van de Graaff (1979), musician, bass baritone and classical radio host on WFMT Matt Walker (1987), rock musician and former drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins Aaron Weinstein (2003), jazz violinist Pete Wentz (attended), bassist for the bands Black Cards and Fall Out Boy The Ying Quartet, string quartet started by four siblings who are all alumni: David (1981), Tim (1983), Phillip (1986), and Janet (1988) Politics and government Judy Biggert (1955), U.S. Representative Bob Dold (1987), U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel (West, 1977), U.S. Representative, White House Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago, United States Ambassador to Japan David H. Hoffman (1984), federal prosecutor and Chicago's inspector general Mark Kirk (1977) U.S. Representative and Senator Thomas Miller (1966), U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999–2001) and Greece (2001–04) Charles H. Percy (1937), U.S. Senator Michael S. Rogers (1977), U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former director of the National Security Agency Carol Ronen (1962), Illinois State Representative and State Senator Donald Rumsfeld (1950), U.S. Representative, White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Secretary of Defense Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois James D. Swan, Wisconsin State Senator Richard S. Williamson (1967), U.S. Ambassador and diplomat Science and technology Bruce Alberts (1956), biochemist, president of the National Academy of Sciences and editor in chief of the journal Science Lise Eliot (1980), professor of neuroscience and author Ellen Fetter (1957), computer scientist Todd Golub (1981), cancer researcher, director of the cancer program at the Broad Institute Mary-Claire King (1963), geneticist Geoffrey A. Landis, aerospace engineer and author Michael Peskin (West, 1969), physicist Martin Rocek (1971), physicist Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963), physicist Jack Steinberger (1938), co-recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics (he donated his Nobel medal to the New Trier science department) Kenneth S. Suslick (1970), chemist Clifford Tabin (1972), geneticist, chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society Sports Trish Andrew (1989), basketball player for Michigan Ross Baumgarten (1973), baseball pitcher Ben Braun (1971), men's collegiate basketball coach, University of California (1996–2008), Rice (2008–14) Pete Burnside (1948), baseball pitcher John Castino (1973), baseball infielder Al Culver, NFL offensive tackle Rick Hahn (1989), MLB general manager of